For - See the margin. It is enough to place the command side by side with the state of Jerusalem to show how contrary it is to all the rules of human prudence. The prophet is sure that God will explain to him his difficulty.
CHAPTER 32 Jeremiah in Prison _ 1. Shut up in the court of the prison (Jeremiah 32:1) _ 2. The revelation of the Lord concerning Hanameel (Jeremiah 32:6) 3. The prophet's prayer (Jeremiah 32
JEREMIAH 32:16 (a later Deuteronomistic expansion, except perhaps in Jeremiah 32:24 f.). Prayer of Jeremiah, reviewing the Divine characteristics, and Yahweh's control of Israel's history, up to the p...
FOR THE CITY IS GIVEN, &C. An expression of surprise at the command to buy the field under such circumstances....
See introd. summary to the section....
The two things, the state of the city and God's command, are placed side by side that their apparent inconsistency may be most strikingly shewn....
FOR THE CITY IS GIVEN— _Although the city be given._ Houbigant....
C. The Prayer for Further Explanation Jeremiah 32:16-25 TRANSLATION (16) Then I prayed unto the LORD after I had given the deed of purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, saying, (17) Ah, O Lord GOD!...
And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. FOR THE CITY IS GIVEN INTO THE HANDS OF THE CHALDEANS -...
This chapter forms the introduction to the most continuously historical part of the book, which describes incidents in the two years preceding the final destruction of Jerusalem, viz. chs. 34-43. The...
וְ אַתָּ֞ה אָמַ֤רְתָּ אֵלַי֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה...
CHAPTER XXX RESTORATION I THE SYMBOL Jeremiah 32:1 "And I bought the field of Hanameel."- Jeremiah 32:9 WHEN Jeremiah was first called to his prophetic mission, after the charge "to pluck up and t...
The next of the prophecies of hope consists of the account of Jeremiah's purchase of a field in Anathoth, with the interpretation of the suggestiveness of the action. While he was still in prison thro...
_Is given, in the eternal decrees, ver. 28. (Haydock)_...
What a beautiful view is here given of the piety and faith of the Prophet! With what zeal and earnestness doth he set his heart to seek the Lord. Though all his remonstrances and entreaties had failed...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
AND THOU HAST SAID TO ME, O LORD GOD,.... Or, "O Lord God, yet thou hast said to me" b; notwithstanding this is the case, the country all around is in the hand of the enemy, and the city is as good as...
And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. Ver. 25. _And thou hast said unto me._] Which now I can...
_And they came in and possessed it_ In the former two verses he acknowledges God's goodness to Israel, here he owns his truth and faithfulness in bringing them into the land which he had promised them...
And Thou hast said unto me, O Lord God, the prophet's perplexity here finding expression, BUY THEE A FIELD FOR MONEY AND TAKE WITNESSES; FOR, or "and yet," THE CITY IS GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALD...
Jeremiah's Prayer and Jehovah's Answer...
16-25 Jeremiah adores the Lord and his infinite perfections. When at any time we are perplexed about the methods of Providence, it is good for us to look to first principles. Let us consider that God...
In this verse again the particle is ill translated _and_, and _for_ in the latter clause. The learned author of the English Annotations judgeth well, that it had been better translated _whenas_ in the...
Jeremiah 32:25 said H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Buy H7069 (H8798) field H7704 money H3701 take...
SUB-PART A. AFTER ITS DESTRUCTION JERUSALEM WILL ONE DAY BE RESTORED, SOMETHING GUARANTEED TO JEREMIAH IN A SYMBOLIC ACT OF PURCHASING FAMILY LAND (JEREMIAH 32:1). Jeremiah is commanded to buy an here...
JEREMIAH QUESTIONS YHWH AS TO WHY HE HAS COMMANDED HIM TO DO THIS STRANGE THING OF BUYING LAND IF THE LAND WAS IN FACT SIMPLY GOING TO BE TAKEN OVER BY THE CHALDEANS. HE MAY WELL HAVE WONDERED WHETHER...
JEREMIAH IS COMMANDED BY YHWH TO DEMONSTRATE HIS CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE OF JUDAH BY BUYING LAND FROM HIS COUSIN HANAMEL ON THE DEATH OF HIS UNCLE. BUT EVEN JEREMIAH IS PUZZLED BY IT AND IT DRIVES HI...
Jeremiah 32:6. _And Jeremiah, said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for...
Jeremiah 32:1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. For then the king of Babylon's army besieged J...
CONTENTS: Sign of the field of Hanameel. Jeremiah's second persecution, his prayer and Jehovah's answer. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Hanameel, Baruch. CONCLUSION: When we are...
Jeremiah 32:1. _The eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar._ This name, which in Hebrew signifies groaning and complaint, aptly describes the miseries he inflicted on the nations. Like an inundation he rav...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 32:25 Given the certain Babylonian victory, Jeremiah wonders why God directed him to BUY land. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—“Tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, and eighteenth of Nebuchadnezzar” (Jeremiah 32:1). _Cf_. note on chronology of chap. 25: “this eight...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah was far from wishing to depress his fellow countrymen to the point of disbelieving in the inalienable promises of God to Israel, He fully recognized an element of truth in the prea...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar (Jeremiah 32:1). Now in the eleventh year of Zedekiah is when...
Jeremiah 32:24; Jeremiah 32:8; John 13:7; Psalms 77:19; Psalms 97:2;